Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-083"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-06-11"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20020611.6.2-083"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-11-Speech-2-0842
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to congratulate the rapporteur on an excellent example of where a substantial and sensible proposal from the Commission has been further improved in our committee. In my remarks, I want to follow Mr Schnellhardt. I believe that it was right for our committee to go further than the Commission, after the abolition of the 25% rule, by also taking an axe to some of the exceptions and exemptions which had been suggested by the Commission. I wish to say something about the many people who correspond with us about allergies. For anyone suffering from an allergy, it is no good saying that it is only an insignificant percentage of people who have it. If you have an allergy, it is 100% for you and we need to be certain that the labelling concerned gives due warning. There is one area where we are not for the first time facing sustained opposition. Mr Schnellhardt just mentioned alcoholic products. Amendment No 1 which I moved in the committee and which was carried, would indeed make certain that there could be a single committee responsible for the labelling of products for alcoholic beverages. I believe that is important and something which has been strenuously resisted over the years by the wine lobby. We are not saying that the specialist committees should not be involved in this, nor that there should not be a dialogue. Sooner or later, we have to tackle, within this general issue of allergies and labelling, the issue of a special interest which has always stood in the way of accurate labelling of some products and of applying the same provisions to all products. I do not believe that we can go on with that and my personal view is that now is the time. I would recommend – although there is a free vote in my group – that we vote in favour of Amendment No 1 and that we start to label wine in the same way as we label other products."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2002-09-23)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE )."1

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